Such A High Priest! - [Hebrews 7:26-28]

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over the years I've tried to help many of you young men especially with job interviews and how to go about a job interview and what to do and how to approach the situation and to get there early and to look nice and to check your tie in the mirror and to be nice to the receptionist and to shake the hand firmly of the interviewer and to not sit on the chair until you're asked to sit and sit on the edge of the chair and to be eager in your answers and then
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I usually try to prepare the person who's going to go in for the interview make sure you can answer the dreaded interview question when they ask you that question that dreaded question make sure you have an answer and that question is not how long are you in the state pen that's not the question the question is what are your weaknesses what are your weaknesses it's very interesting when people ask that question do they really want an answer or are they looking to see if you're a person who has made progress is a person who is working on their weaknesses is a person who is self -aware knowing that they have weaknesses are these people honest that's really what they're looking for one online report said giving advice on this question how to answer what your weaknesses you're not confessing your sins are discussing childhood traumas with a therapist so don't talk about your greatest weakness of all time and then wait for mercy and then they give an illustration of what not to do do not say
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I hate animals that's my weakness I hate animals so much that I yell at my sister's dog when she isn't around to hear it
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I don't know why I hate animals so much and the list goes on I've never been the same since I don't know what to do about it and the author online said you need a job not a therapy referral now to go from interview
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E to interviewer if you had to interview someone to be your high priest what questions would you ask him you have to stand before a thrice holy
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God and of course every one of us will have to stand before God on that day that great day judgment day
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Luther said I have two days in my calendar today and that day so on that great day you stand before God you're gonna need an intercessor you're gonna need a mediator you'll need an advocate and let's say theoretically hypothetically you could interview someone to be that person for you to stand before you and God what questions would you ask them and would you be satisfied if they gave you answers of turning negatives into positives talking about skills in which they've improved are discussing non -essential skills if you had to ask five questions of someone who would stand before you and God on that great day these should be the questions you ask are you holy are you innocent are you unstained are you separated from sinners and are you exalted in the heavens those are the five things that are about the
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Lord Jesus Christ in our text today turn to Hebrews chapter 7 with me please Jesus is all these things he is the perfect high priest of course his work did not end when he died he was raised from the dead and he continues to make intercession for us and the good news is we would have picked the wrong priest if we interviewed people but God the
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Father has picked the perfect priest to fit our situation everything we need he is because on that great day when you stand before God you have a mediator
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Christian you have a an advocate Christian and you are guaranteed to get to heaven that's good news in spite of what you've done this week in spite of what you've done in the last month in spite of what you've done since you were a
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Christian or before a Christian since you have a high priest you're forgiven and he will make intercession and he guarantees that you get to heaven that is so good for people who are guilt -ridden and they're insecure in their relationship with God and they're wondering does
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God still like me does he still love me Christian friend you are accepted by God not on the basis of what you've done or what you haven't done acts of righteousness or acts of sin you stand before God on the basis of his perfection and his righteousness that he's given to you by his son who now has not only done that but he's the mediator between you and the
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Father if I want to put this negatively Jesus has never been unholy he has no blame he's not impure he's not sinful and he's not still in the grave if you could pick any mediator this is the right mediator and God the
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Father has picked him for you I love the book of Hebrews because it is an all -out assault making sure that every
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Christian in spite of trials remember the recipients of this letter were on the run their properties being plundered they haven't died yet for their faith but they're about to and this writer wants to make sure listen don't forget about Jesus Christ don't forget about the good news good news isn't just a thing he is a person don't take your eyes off the
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Lord Jesus and you ought to walk by faith in the object Christ and not by sight it's so good
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I talked to somebody this week online and they said well you know what there's too much talk about grace and too much talk about love
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I thought well I don't really like to argue online I just asked them one question I said is there too much talk about Jesus in churches today
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I like to win online can you talk too much about Jesus and see when you talk about Jesus of course we're remembering that we were sinful because he's our sin bear it's not like we're forgetting sin no
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God doesn't even forget sin it's paid in full justice demands it to be paid in full and Jesus assuages the wrath of God the
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Father because of that because he loves us the Spirit loves us the Father loves us and what this group of people needed was a good old -fashioned sermon about the person and work of Jesus now just to give you a little review in chapter 7 we've seen that Jesus is better than these old priests better than the
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Levitical priest better than the Aaronic priest because the the recipients of this letter were thinking you know what
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I could go back to that temple right over there the marble the gold the incense the smells the trumpeters the singers that seems to be better than this invisible
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Jesus and so he's trying to remember remind them these Levitical priest aren't the best priest for you so don't forget about Jesus the great priest who also look at verse 22 with just a little reminder this makes
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Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant everything in this section is well these priests were weak but Jesus isn't these priests die but Jesus doesn't these priests have to offer sacrifices for themselves but Jesus doesn't
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Jesus's covenant is better Jesus is better than Moses Jesus is better than Sinai and he gives you some of that illustration in verse 23 to remember the former priest were many a number
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I mean so many high priest 80 high priest between Aaron and this time because they were prevented by death from continuing in office but he were talking about the
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Lord Jesus the great high priest he holds his priesthood permanently why because he continues forever you can't put an end to Jesus's ministry these other people they just died death cannot prevent
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Jesus from carrying on his priestly work permanence that were permanence in in classical
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Greek was the constancy of the sun's course through the sky Jesus friend lives forever forever offering help at every turn in every situation he's always on the clock and verse 25 remember just the greatest verse we looked at last week just praiseworthy under the
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Lord Jesus because of what he does consequently in conclusion you could say he's able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him since he always lives to make enters session for them he
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Christian is going to get you to the uttermost that means he's going to get you to heaven in spite of Satan in spite of sin in spite of persecution in spite of anything and everyone he's going to get you there it is good to know you are going to make it to heaven people say well can you lose your salvation my answer to them might be could you please read 725 he has made you saved and you can't undo what he's done especially if he's the high priest that always interceding for you he has to do it because we would lose our salvation he absolutely saves he forever saves and then he intercedes everything that could go wrong on earth that would prevent you to get to heaven
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Jesus make sure he intercedes for you that's the point of the passage it's not that he's you know pleading his blood
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God please forgive them he's seated at the right hand he's purged our sins it is finished his atoning work but there are other things that he does and he he he prays for us and he intercedes and he makes sure that when we're tempted or we're gonna fall or anything else that might prevent us from getting to heaven he lives to make intercession for us seated at this great right hand of the father remember we looked at Stephen when he was gonna get killed in Acts 7 even though Jesus is sitting at the right hand his atoning work is done he still mediates for his people he still intercedes for his people and it says in Acts 7 remember
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Jesus standing at the right hand of God Stephen said behold I see the heavens open and the
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Son of Man standing why because he's there to help his people he's there to stand
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Matthew Henry said Stephen sees him standing there as one more ordinarily concerned at present for his suffering servant he stood up to judge as judge to plead his cause against his persecutors so now we move to chapter 7 verses 26 27 and 28
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Jesus is superior because he's the perfect priest exactly suited to your need let me read verses 26 27 and 28 and let's see how far we get today code for I'm not gonna make it all and by the way you wouldn't want me to it's so rich for it was indeed fitting
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Hebrews 726 that we should have such a high priest holy innocent unstained separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens he has no need like those high priest to offer sacrifices daily first for his own sins and then for those other people since he did this once for all when he offered up himself for the law points men in their weakness as high priest but the word of the oath which came later than the law appoints a son who has been made perfect forever let me give you if you'd like an outline five reasons to keep trusting in Jesus your great high priest the vehicle priest failed this
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Jesus isn't going to fail five reasons to trust Jesus as high priest things that he either is are things that he has done before we get to that list though take a look at verse 26 you see it was indeed fitting
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Jesus's selection as high priest by the father is a perfect fit for sinners you can almost think of Ephesians 2 we're rich in sins verses 1, 2, and 3 well
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God is rich in mercy to make up for those sins he has fitness essential fitness to do his work as high priest now if I ask you are you fit what might you say
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I learned the other day that there was a wrestler somebody in our congregation actually who was cutting weight for a big meet and then went to the
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Shepherds Conference and then the season was over and this particular young man gained 20 pounds in those five days
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I won't mention any names Mr. Goddard but he was still fit after 20 pounds if I say are you fit you typically think you know am
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I physically fit is Jesus fitting in a saving way to get you to heaven that's the idea he's suitable everything you need to get to heaven
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Jesus is adequate for he's he's fit for this is language of Hebrews 2 .10
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for it was fitting that he and then it goes on to describe Jesus the founder of our salvation
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I could ask you is Jesus unfit for his work
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I look at some words that really made my eyes open words that are similar to unfit synonyms for unfit unprepared for not designed for ineligible for unworthy of incapable of incompetent at unable to do not up to not equal to not good enough unqualified for untrained for improper unbecoming not up to scratch is
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Jesus any of those when it comes to salvation and if he is you might as well go do anything but be here but on the other hand the text says he's suitable he's capable he's fit and therefore you can approach
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God therefore God's good with you Christian even though you have sin he was indeed it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest he's so superior to these other priests no weaknesses look at the first reason the first reason you should trust in him or the first characteristic or qualification of this high priest he is holy you're gonna need this kind of priest to stand before God and live he's holy well that's that's amazing
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Jesus is the perfect high priest because he's holy now there are two New Testament words for holy the one you're thinking about now haggios hagiography transcendent separated above but that's not the word used here it's not the regular word it's a different word it means that Jesus is like God in every respect that Jesus wants to please
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God in every way it describes a person who wants to do the right thing before God it's not that he's a separate although he is and it's not that he's transcendent although he is this is a word that describes the chief desire in a person's heart is to glorify
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God doesn't that sound like Jesus to you my food is to do your work this is an inner attitude of piety this is personal piety with no pollution no scars only appears eight times in the
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New Testament and most of them portray either God or Christ let me give you a few of these illustrations of this word being used about pleasing to God are devout are pious revelation 15 it says who will not fear
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O Lord and glorify your name for you alone are holy that's the word that was used here revelation 16 just as you
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O holy one who is and was for you brought these judgments it's used of Christ in Acts chapter 2 for you will not abandon my soul to Hades are let your holy one see corruption he is the perfect priest practical holiness he's upright in other words and see here's what's gonna happen think big picture if you have to stand before God and your priest that you have as a mediator and as an intercessor and as an advocate is contaminated or anything less than perfectly holy he's gonna need a mediator he's gonna have to have somebody between him and God I think about this for a second
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Jesus is sinless life 33 years on earth set that against our lives and our sin that's amazing he is completely holy never sin job says people are abominable and corrupt and they drink injustice like water but not
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Jesus Solomon said there is not one who does not sin first Kings 8 except Jesus the
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Apostle John said if we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves and make him a liar yet Jesus has no sin
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Paul calls himself the chief of sinners yet Jesus has no sin for three decades on earth plus Jesus never gossip he never slandered he never lied he never lusted he never stole positively he always loved
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God and he always loved his neighbor 33 years if I wanted to get an old style preaching mode
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I could ask you this how about going a day congregation without one of those things and I'm right there with you 2nd
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Corinthians 521 he knew no sin the angel said at his birth the
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Holy One is born demon said the Holy One of God speaking of Jesus first Peter 1 lamb unblemished and spotless the blood of Christ and maybe that the the wildest first in all the
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Bible talking about Jesus is adequate and fitted and appropriate to be your high priest Jesus said and he who sent me is with me
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Johnny 29 he has not left me alone for I always do the things that are pleasing to him that's the essence of that word holy
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I always do the things pleasing to him can you imagine it's one thing to say it is another thing to do it
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I don't know how you operate but here's how I operate I mean I could probably say to God I sometimes do the things that are pleasing once in a while I do the things pleasing to God if I get enough rest
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I do things pleasing to God I don't have that migraine
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I do things pleasing to God every other day I do things pleasing to God payday
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I do things pleasing to God I mean the list goes on and on and on I always do the things pleasing to God that's why he can always be the great intercessor he can always stand between you and the father and you
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Christian are always accepted it was
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Luther who said if I look at my own self I don't know how I can be saved but if I look at my intercessor if I look at the
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Holy One who stands and pleads for me and makes intercession for me I don't know how it could be what lost first Peter 3 the just for the unjust he's the just one we're the unjust one even
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Judas knew it I have betrayed what innocent blood in the 1930s there's a
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Presbyterian Church in Wales Australia man named Professor Samuel Angus here it calls him the
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Reverend Professor but in my mind he's just a professor always be aware of people who want to be called
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Reverend Doctor Professors Scott Farah when
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I first met him he's like what do I call you you're the new pastor what do I call you you know they voted me in it was 40 votes for zero votes against two abstentions by the way the cranes did the abstentions
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I had the writing decoded they were the only ones with brains though we don't even know this guy he puts on a good show for two days well let's hire him
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Scott said what do I call you and I said well you call me what I've deserved and I'm to be called
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High Holy Father there's nothing to be revered in me that's a word used of the
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Lord Reverend well this guy he was a liberal 1934 and he said quote the man of Nazareth was conscience of his own shortcomings from his own high ideals
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Jesus knew he was he was a faker he added quote it is not the sinlessness of Jesus but the supreme glory of his moral character and moral conquest that make him
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Lord to me that is total liberalism that is when people you know wanna make
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Jesus not really human because if they make him human then then he has to be perfectly human and so let's make him some kind of abstract comment a concept rather another man
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Sebastian Moore who's also not a reverend said Jesus quote is a puppet in a theological theologians puppet show because he doesn't only have humanity except the text says he was fully perfectly human and he is
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God himself here's the wildest thing when you think about Jesus is your holy high priest most the time you'll see that when people get closer to God what happens to them they recognize their sin more right
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Peter's in the boat Jesus does a supernatural thing and Peter says depart from me
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I'm a simple man Isaiah sees who Jesus is and he says woe is me the closer you get to God the closer you know your sin because you're closer to him the
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Holy One except think about the Lord Jesus could he be closer could he have closer fellowship with the
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Father and yet he still sees no sin in himself because he is sinless that's amazing today you know there's a prayer in the
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Bible that Jesus never ever prayed nor will he what's the prayer that Jesus will never pray we call it sadly the
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Lord's Prayer but it can't be the Lord's Prayer because the Lord could never and will never pray this prayer and if he does you're on your way to hell our
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Father in heaven hallowed be your name your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and what forgive us our debts it's not the
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Lord's Prayer oh if you say he's teaching it yes then okay the Lord's Prayer is John 17 and he never confessed a sin there this is the
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Lord teaching the disciples this is the disciples prayer there's a prayer Jesus never prayed forgive us our debts because he's never sinned therefore you can trust this priest
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Christian you say well I've been burned by pastors I've been burned by churches I've been burned by priests
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I've been burned by churches and hurt and well may I friends point you to the one will never burn you who's holy can
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I can I remind you who Jesus is and he's gonna never let you down well pastors let you down yes churches let you down yes
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I was even reading this week there's an article on the internet pastor pastors are less trusted today probably some validity in that with their moral failure in their ethical failures relationship failures financial failures
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MacArthur said regarding some of these there are some sins that irreparably shatter a man's reputation and disqualify him from a ministry of leadership forever and if I ever committed adultery or ever do something like that my ministry is shattered but friends if the
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Lord Jesus sinned one sin not even one of those gross sins that we think about but even a sin that we think is smaller on the level one single solitary sin you have no mediator he'd be disqualified how pure must a pastor be that's a good question but how pure must a high priest be he must be holy number two the second great reason you should trust in this high priest he's not only holy but he's innocent or blameless just think about how blame worthy those old priest were think about how blame worthy even pastors are but Jesus is not bad it's got the idea this word of wicked or evil he has no evil influence in his life if you think yeast is kind of this idea of sin in the
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Old Testament he has no yeast in his life he is guileless the
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Greek word is from the word a it's got an alpha privative up front and K A -K -O -S is the word and it means constitutionally bad and so he is without guile he is free from malice he doesn't bring a sin offering for himself therefore he can bring it for you there's no duplicity in Jesus he is morally pure there's no deceit in Jesus he's not tricking you hey follow me
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I'll get you to heaven I've been watching the Scientology stuff at night just because it's interesting they get people to sign billion -year contracts to be in the
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C organization billion years can you imagine billion -year contracts just a crazy thing they do and you know what that church is full of guile and deceit and the closer you get to the top the more you see it the closer you get to the top i .e.
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heaven and see the Lord Jesus you won't see any of it because it's not there guileless not even an evil thought turn with me please to Luke 23 and I want you to see the guilelessness of Jesus through the eyes of other people even it's one thing for Paul to say it the writer
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Hebrews to say it but here I want you to see other people who knew that Jesus had no guile that he was innocent and again everything is predicated on if your
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Jesus is some kinda really good teacher really good example and he's not the thrice holy God who's the eternal son who's added humanity who lived a real life who died on the cross was raised from the dead and ascended in heaven and is gonna come back you've got the wrong
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Jesus when people say to me well my Jesus is a Jesus of such -and -such well that's just a
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Jesus have your imagination this is the only Jesus that we can know about can't trust yourself
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I know you've been influenced by Disney movies and so have I but the answer is not in here right don't trust yourself so I have to have an external source that's why
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I have the Bible even these people knew Jesus was blameless and you've got to have a blameless high priest to stand before the blameless one if you're blame full
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Luke 23 verse 1 then the whole company of them arose and brought him before pilot they began to accuse him saying we found this man misleading our nation in forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar and saying that he himself is
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Christ a king pilot ask him are you the king of the Jews and he answered him you have said so then pilot said to the chief priest and the crowds
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I find no guilt in this man wow verse 13 going on verse 13 pilot then called together the chief priest and the rulers in the people and said to them you brought me this man who this man as one who was misleading the people after examining him before you behold
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I did not find this man guilty of any of your charges against him neither did Herod for he sent him back to us look nothing deserving death has been done by him
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I will therefore punish and release him verse 18 they all cried together away with this man and released to us
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Barabbas a man who had been thrown into prison somebody who isn't holy was Barabbas somebody who wasn't blameless
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Barabbas somebody who was just like them Barabbas he started an insurrection in the city and for murder pilot addressed him once more desiring to release
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Jesus but they kept on shouting crucify crucify him and a third time he said to them why what evil has he done
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I have found in him no guilt deserving death I will therefore punish and release him but they were urgent demanding with loud cries that he should be crucified and their voices prevailed so pilot decided that they should their demand should be granted he released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder for whom they asked he delivered
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Jesus over to their will and even on the cross verse 35 people knew
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Jesus was blame less Luke 2335 do you see it and the people stood by watching but the ruler scoffed at him saying he saved others let him save himself if he is the
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Christ of God his chosen one the soldiers also mocked him coming up and offering him sour wine and kept saying if you're the king of the
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Jews save yourself there was also an inscription over him this is king of the Jews one of the criminals verse 39 who were hanged railed at him saying are you not the
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Christ save yourself and us but the other rebuke him saying do not fear God since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds but this man mark it has done nothing wrong and then even after Jesus died verse 44 the same chapter he was now about the sixth hour and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour so from noon to three
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God is judging the sun while the sun's light failed and the curtain of the temple was torn in two then
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Jesus calling out with a loud voice said father into your hands I commit my spirit and having said this he breathed his last don't miss it verse 47 now with a centurion saw what had taken place he praised
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God saying certainly this man was innocent friends your high priest he's holy and he's innocent let's go back to Hebrews chapter 3 and see the third reason you should praise this high priest he's not just holy he's not just innocent the text goes on it says he's unstained back to Hebrews 7 he is unstained when
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I was a kid I remember making tie -dye shirts with my mom Carla in Nebraska we would buy some cheap kind of whatever's cheaper than fruit of the loom t -shirt and she would get this dye remember what that dye was called what was the brand name
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RIT dye, dye of champions and we would wad up those shirts and do all that kinda stuff and if you didn't tie the knot in the church
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I officiated a wedding yesterday where two people tied the knot in a church if you don't tie the knot in the shirt tight enough the stain, the dye leaks in doesn't it and it's not a cool tie -dye hippie thing hate ashberry this is the word that when there's evil if it can find any little crevice any little way to get in it does except for Jesus he's not stained he's what unstained it's amazing he's not stained by sin he's morally pure no stain on the inside no stain coming from the outside we hang out with people and bad company does what it corrupts good morals when
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Jesus hangs out with every kind of sinner what happens does any that influence get into his character obviously no this is the same word used regarding the marital bed the sexual marital bed
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Hebrews 13 for let marriage be held in honor among all and let the marriage bed be undefiled for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous sexual sin outside of marriage is exactly that sin but in marriage there's no stain it's not unholy it's not wrong it's not dirty it's pure this word is also used sometimes of of sacrificial animals and you've got to get the right animal and you can't bring an animal to get slain in the
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Old Testament that only had one ear or three legs they would be defiled you've got to get the right one and so this word here means that evil is not in Jesus and evil doesn't attach itself to Jesus he's free from this evil he's unstained how many of us could say we're unstained and unaffected by this evil world system
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I know the world system affects me because I can't even watch a commercial for Ruth Chris Steakhouse without wanting a steak do they have
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Ruth Chris around here they have them in Boston okay 111 shop house did you just say
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Applebee's now that's some defiled thinking right there we have some probably manager from Applebee's here so you think how am
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I gonna just get into the presence of God how am I gonna make it you can't make it because you're sinful even as a
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Christian you sin so you've got to have somebody who's a mediator who's an advocate who's an intercessor who's gonna get you there who's gonna bridge the gap between thrice holy
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God and you and he is perfectly human so he can represent you and he's ultimately and infinitely and always
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God so he can be on God's side and he can be in the middle and yet he has no sin that he has to say well father by the way before I mediate for this person
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I've done some things wrong too he the writer wants you to say I can trust in my advocate
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I can't trust in myself and I know I'm not holy I know I'm blameful I know
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I'm defiled but I'm trusting in the one who isn't there is no hope for anyone to get to heaven without such a situation because it would have to be then to get to heaven just do good except God requires perfection you can't do good enough you need have somebody who's gonna stand before you who's unsullied you have to have somebody to stand before you who's perfectly live a life and has so much righteousness an infinite amount that he can just give it to you and then you're covered as well it's like an asbestos sin blanket covering you because he's earned it to give to you it's called imputation of Christ's righteousness
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Jesus is holy innocent and blameless he's not like us but he represents us no sins ever committed by Jesus of omission of commission of thought of word of deed no mortal sins no venial sins if they exist no seven deadly sins he always obeyed always honored always always which is wild to me because I just read the
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Bible and I look at certain priests that are in the Bible and I go there's a lot of priests in the
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Bible that aren't anywhere close to this remember the story now the sons of Eli were worthless men they did not know the
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Lord the custom of the priest with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice the priest's servant would come while the meat was boiling with a three -prong fork in his hand and he would thrust it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or pot and all the fork brought up the priest would take for himself this is what they did at Shiloh to all the
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Israelites who came there moreover before the fat was burned the priest's servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing give meat for the priest to roast and he will not accept boiled meat from you but only raw and if the man said to him let them burn the fat first and then take as much as you wish he would say no you must give it now and if not
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I will take it by force you say what's all that about in first Samuel thus the sin of the young men those priests were very great in the sight of the
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Lord for the men treated the offering of the Lord with contempt now
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Eli was very old and he kept hearing all that his sons the priest were doing to all Israel and how they lay with the women who were serving at the entrance of the tent of meeting he said to them why do you do such things for I hear of your evil dealings from all the people know my sons it is not good is it not the report that I hear the people of the
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Lord spreading abroad if some man sins against man God will mediate for him but if someone sins against the
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Lord who can intercede for him but they would not listen to the voice their father for it was the will of the
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Lord put them to death what's my point there are wicked priests everywhere but not the
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Lord Jesus so today here's what
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I want you to do I want you to think to yourself is there a better priest in the world who could represent if I had to pick my own priest what kind of priest would
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I pick is there somebody that has more power in the world who could help me out better than Jesus I wish
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Jesus was my priest I I know there's somebody more powerful than he is I'd pick him you know
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I I know Jesus is pretty wise but I know there's a wiser priest than Jesus I'd like to have him there's gotta be it a priest who would love me more than Jesus would and so I think
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I'd like him I think there's somebody who obeyed the law more than Jesus did and honored
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God with his life more than Jesus did it was more sacrificial than Jesus was I think I'd like to pick him for that day do you see how crazy this is it's crazy so what we ought to be doing is is what the psalmist does
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Oh Lord our Lord how excellent is your name in all the earth this is the
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Savior he's the Lord Jesus and if you're a sinner this is the Savior for you and I say if that's third -class conditional you are we are
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I mean if you think about difficult questions what are your weaknesses that's pretty easy to answer really in an interview but how about that day when you stand before God and God will judge everything you've done and you will stand at the bar of justice and how will you enter
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God's holy heaven on your own or with a different mediator besides Jesus and the answer is you won't because there's one
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God and there's only one mediator and he stands between you and God and he's the one the
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Bible says that you ought to trust him that's why it's so wrong to think let's see how am
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I going to get to heaven I'll go to church I'm going to get to heaven I'll get baptized how to go to church
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I mean get to heaven I think I'll get catechized I think I'll get circumcised I think I'll do good things I think
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I won't do bad things friends that's a perfect heaven and God requires perfection or if you get there as an imperfect person that heaven is not going to be perfect anymore because you are going to be there so you need to have somebody who can declare you perfect and stand before you perfectly in front of a thrice holy
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God and by the way when these people got this message I'm positive for at least 45 minutes they didn't go yeah and by the way they're going to take my house by the way they're plundering my possessions by the way
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I have to go to work tomorrow by the way what am I going to do if my favorite team loses a game
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I mean really we had some visitors last year they're still at the church and they said we came to church on Super Bowl Sunday we wanted to hear if you're going to talk about the game at all because we didn't really want you to talk about the game so now that they're here in members
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I guess that's my talk about the game no wonder the psalmist says praise
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God from whom all blessings flow you get to go to heaven based on the work of another and he's holy and he's innocent and he's blameless and he's separated from sinners and he's exalted in the heavens let's pray thank you father for this time thank you that we can rejoice in what you've given us we would pick the wrong person
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I think about young people and dating lots of times they pick the wrong person they make a mistake they can't see everything and father when it comes to picking our priest we would do the exact same thing but you picked him for us
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I thank you for that I thank you that our guilt is gone Jesus paid for it I thank you that we're accepted